Nutrition: One-Sixth of a Nation

Dr. Arnold E. Schaefer of the U.S. Public
Health Service has studied nutrition levels in 33 developing nations
and, unsurprisingly, found evidence of widespread hunger in most of
them. Nearly two years ago, after Congress ordered a nutrition survey,
Schaefer focused on his own country and, surprisingly, found that
malnutrition is just as severe among the U.S. poor.

Testifying last week before Democrat George McGovern's Senate Committee
on Nutrition and Human Needs, Schaefer reported that of 12,000 people
examined (mostly in Texas, Louisiana and Kentucky, plus several hundred
from upstate New York),...